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August 17	Apologies for the three-day absence of ATDP on the Net! An old router at Tolman Hall breathed its last around 4:45 on Friday, Aug. 14th and had to be replaced over the weekend. We're back, though...!

June 26	Summer on the Berkeley campus ... pictures here. Take a walk up Telegraph Avenue, from Cody's Bookstore and Amoeba Records, to Noah's Bagels on the corner of Durant Avenue, through campus and by the Valley Life Sciences Building, and end up at Tolman Hall, homebase for the ATDP.

June 16	Some photographs of ATDP classes in session: Lloyd Nebres' Internet Classroom Photo Gallery Zack Rogow's Creative Reading for Creative Writing Desiree Pointer's Social Science Research Lab Ann McKenna's Introduction to Engineering

June 15	The 1998 Summer Session of the ATDP Secondary Division begins at last! Check out the happenings at the Internet Classroom, where sites, pix, essays and neat student work appears on an almost hourly basis...

June 8	If you wish to find the buildings on the UC Berkeley campus where your classrooms are located, go to this handy ATDP Classroom Map link. Note, though, that if you zoom in to a particular sector of the campus map, you will be brought off the ATDP website to another Berkeley webserver. To return, just click the BACK button on your web browser.

June 6

The Secondary Division Orientation took place on a cloudy Saturday morning. The Orientation had the usual lineup of stellar speakers, including Clara Porter, a middle school student from San Francisco; Guive Balooch a high school senior on his way in to Cal-Berkeley as a sophomore, Justy Walukiewicz, also a graduating senior coming to Berkeley; and David Pokorny, a long-time ATDP student/mentor who, alas, is leaving us for Harvard in the fall.

May 16	The first big meeting of the year took place today: the faculty inservice for Elementary and Secondary Division instructors. Flossie Lewis, long-time SD and ED instructor, mentor and maven, was honored at the meeting. (She couldn't stay as she had to go to speak at her Ph.D. graduation ceremony at the Greek Theatre.)

April 30

We apologize for the 1-hour web-blackout today. Parts of the 3rd floor in Tolman Hall lost electricity for a little while, and the webserver went offline. We hope no one was too inconvenienced... On a more programmatic note, a reminder: today is the postmark deadline for students admitted to the Secondary Division to mail in their acceptance slips. The deadline to withdraw from the program, with a full tuition refund, is May 15th.

April 24	Berkeley's new Chancellor, Robert M. Berdahl, was inaugurated today, and the event was attended by our most rabid Cal fan and ATDP student employee, none other than our Wednesday Explorations czar, Gary Hsueh. Gary and Jacqui Ponce, another ATDP student employee, came in to the office dressed to par-tay, and we snapped a couple photos.

April 10	This site's webmaster takes off for Passover and Easter, and he sees raindrops coalesce on a train window...

March 13

The Elementary Division returning student application deadline (Mar. 13) is at hand, and ONLY the classes listed below are still open as of today. You may still apply for other classes not on this list, if you wish to be placed on a waiting list. Click here to see the complete list of 1998 Summer Session ED courses. ...KINDERGARTEN 1403 - Theater Production, PM ...FIRST GRADE 1411 - Greek Mythology, PM 1413 - Sea Studies, PM ...SECOND GRADE 1423 - Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!, PM ...THIRD GRADE 1433 - Writers' Workshop, PM 1437 - Light and Vision, PM ...FOURTH GRADE 1441 - Art in our Environment, PM (3rd & 4th grade) 1446 - Mathematical Investigations, AM 1449 - Fluid Physics, PM ...FIFTH GRADE 1555 - Writers' Workshop, PM 1556 - Theater Production Workshop, AM ...SIXTH GRADE 1465 - Human Anatomy, PM 1467 - Electron Madness, PM

March 6

ATDP's Year-Round program class had its March session today, and the students met with former SFUSD/ATDP students who are now Cal undergrads, including Steve and Luis Guillen, Maricela Leon and Natalie Tilds. The ATDP alumni shared their experiences of applying to Cal, and to surviving and thriving as Berkeley undergrads. Once again, one of the SFUSD groups that met today had a web-page writing session at the computer lab. Check out Jetangeline's funky "Pinay Pride" page and prepare for retinal shock...! Also, the ATDP webmaster and editor of this page celebrated his ??th birthday today and his office colleagues had a sweet surprise for him...

February 26

The Secondary Division application deadline (Feb. 27) is at hand, and ONLY the classes listed below are still open as of today. You may still apply for other classes not on this list, if you wish to be placed on a waiting list. Click here to see the complete list of 1998 Summer Session SD courses. 1700.2 - Introduction to the Writing Process 1704 - Asian American Literature and Culture 1708 - Shakespeare as Theater 1709 - Poetry Writing 1710.2 - Advanced Writing 1713/14 - Advanced Japanese 1715 - Russian 1 1717 - German 1 1719 - French Culture Through Literature 1720 - Exploring the Symbols... of Science 1735.1 - Introduction to Geometric Thinking 1743 - Intuitive Approach to Higher Mathematics 1745 - Precalculus (PM) 1750 - Forms of Folklore 1752 - Social Science Research Lab 1753 - Cultural Ethnography 1755 - Architecture: Design and Society 1756.2 - The Practice of Law (PM) 1760/61 - Science Symposium (AM and PM) 1764 - Dynamic Chemistry (PM) 1767 - Biological Psychology 1768/69 - Molecular Genetics and Evolution (AM and PM)

February 10

ATDP's Year-Round program class met today, and one of the groups had a web-page writing session at the School of Education's Corey Laboratory. Please read the pages and stories that the students wrote. (I found Leticia Elzaurdia's essay on voluntarism particularly interesting.) After lunch, the students also met with the Director of UC Berkeley's Early Outreach Program, who gave a talk about what it takes for a student to prepare for a successful application to the UC system. (Picture on the right.)

February 1

Interesting factoid of the day: During the last four months (since 1 Oct 1997), the ATDP website has been visited by people from the following countries: United States, Canada, Sweden, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, France, Finland, Belgium, Singapore, Netherlands, South Korea, Italy, Denmark, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal Ireland, Czech Republic, Israel, Poland, Austria, Iceland, Argentina, South, Africa, Indonesia, Russian Federation, Greece, Slovenia, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Qatar, Colombia, United Arab Emirates, Costa Rica, Thailand, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Great Britain, Croatia, Turkey, Chile, Oman, Philippines, Bolivia, India, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Taiwan, Uruguay, Peru, Hungary, Georgia, Romania, Slovak Republic, Bulgaria, Belarus, Faroe Islands, Cyprus, Brunei Darussalam, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, Jordan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Bermuda, Lithuania, Ecuador, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Ukraine, Malta, Guatemala, Moldavia, San Marino, Bahamas, Egypt, Puerto Rico, Cook Islands, Guyana

January 20	Information for the 1998 Summer Session is now online and available here. If you wish to obtain an actual brochure and application packet, please refer to the application page, paying particular attention to the approaching deadline dates.

January 1	This page's editor spends his new year's day in Maui, on top of Haleakala volcano this time*, carrying his nephew on his back. * (Last year, it was at sea level, with a bunch of large fish...)